Interventional Pulmonology Fellowship Program » Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine » College of Medicine

The UF Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine is proud to offer a one-year fellowship opportunity in Interventional Pulmonology (IP). This fellowship is intended to provide an additional year of training in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures of airway and pleural disorders for those who have completed a Pulmonary/Critical Care fellowship.

Karthik Vijayan
Program Director, Interventional Pulmonary Fellowship
karthik.vijayan@medicine.ufl.edu

Fellowship Program Overview

The Interventional Pulmonology Fellowship at the University of Florida is a one-year, ACGME-accredited subspecialty program focused on advanced clinical and procedural training in complex airway disease, lung cancer diagnosis and staging, pleural disorders, and advanced COPD interventions. The program aims to develop clinical investigators with expertise in interventional pulmonology, aligned with ACGME and American Association of Bronchology & Interventional Pulmonology requirements.

The fellowship accepts one fellow per year, allowing for individualized training and progressive procedural autonomy. Applicants must have completed three years of Internal Medicine residency and three years of ACGME-accredited Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship training. Selection occurs through the NRMP Interventional Pulmonology Match.

Training is based at UF Health/Shands Hospital, a tertiary academic medical center and NCI-designated cancer center, and includes comprehensive exposure to advanced bronchoscopic and pleural procedures, multidisciplinary thoracic oncology care, peri-procedural management, research, and quality improvement.

Graduates are prepared for independent practice in academic or advanced community interventional pulmonology settings.

Facilities

Shands at UF is a 1,000 bed teaching hospital and the major tertiary referral center for northern Florida. The hospital is on the University of Florida campus. The Lung Diagnostic Center is a hospital outpatient department (HOD) consisting of two Bronchoscopy procedural rooms offering services Monday-Friday from 8:30-5:30. The Lab is located on the 6^th floor of the North Tower of UF Health Shands Hospital. Each procedure room is staffed with a Registered Nurse (RN) and a Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT). The RN is responsible for assessment and monitoring the patient and the RRT is responsible for assisting the physician with the procedure. Anesthesia coverage is available in the Operating Room, and one day per week in the Bronchoscopy suite.